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English
Adverb
according as (not comparable)
- Precisely as; the same as; just as; corresponding to the way in which. (Now often expressing accordance with two or more alternatives.)
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Is all things well, According as I gave directions?
1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.20:Ethical theories may be divided into two classes, according as they regard virtue as an end or a means.
1965, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Fuzzy Sets:When A is a set in the ordinary sense of the term, its membership function can take on only two values 0 and 1, with fA(x) = 1 or 0 according as x does or does not belong to A.
- To the proportion or degree that.
- Depending on whether.
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